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May 6, 2013

15 Best Finance Tweets of the Month: April

Bill Gross, Josh Brown and more speak their mind in 140 characters

(Photo: AP)

April kept the Twitterati of the finance world in top form.

When a bombing killed three people and injured hundreds at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, Americans took to Twitter, watching the aftermath of the attack unfold in real time as journalists and other observers unearthed a cascade of details (some more accurate than others). The stream of breaking news continued for weeks—near the end of the month, hundreds of tweets with the words "Boston bombing" appeared every hour.

The month also brought its share of market antics. Gold plunged, Bitcoin took a wild ride and one of the most influential economic policy papers in recent memory got called into question by a simple spreadsheet error. A Syrian group hijacked The Associated Press' Twitter feed, posting fake reports of explosions at the White House and causing a blink-and-you'll-miss-it $200 billion crash of the S&P 500—it quickly recovered.

Meanwile, Sallie Krawcheck threw a punch in the battle of the sexes, the Reformed Broker Josh Brown got snarky about Spanish unemployment and Bill Gross opined on the pomp and pageantry of stock trading.

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